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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools are under scrutiny and pressure over the scores of low-performing kids.  Teachers there focus on the bottom group because that is what Principals and central office demand.

Even in FCPS AAP, the differentiation is modest, not huge, and some believe better behavior is the main benefit.

[b]Many, not all, public elementary schools have stopped - or significantly reduced - direct instruction in areas such as spelling, grammar, multiplication table memorization, and cursive writing.  Many privates still teach all of those areas explicitly and in depth, particularly consistent with this are the Catholic schools.  Also, for reading, most Catholic and almost all Montessori schools stuck with Phonics-centered literacy instruction -  and skipped the whole language/balanced literacy Lucy Calkins crap.[/b][/quote]

This right here...my kids in Catholic school have homework every night that they write down in a planner. They read novels. They do math with a pencil. They have spelling and grammar as subjects in school. They know their times tables. 
Our class sizes are getting huge though. When we started the average class size was 14 and now it's 22. The weirdest part is that the increase is almost completely girls.[/quote]

Are you in an area and at an age where there are a lot of "mean girl" bullying problems and kids start really excluding others? That might explain the increase. I've noticed a lot of girl parents pulling their kid from public in upper elementary for this reason--more so than boy parents.[/quote]

Actually it's most pronounced in 1st and 2nd grade (our 2nd grade is 85% female) and when I ask parents why they switched I ALWAYS get a story about their sensitive quiet daughter being traumatized by a chair throwing style incident. [/quote]

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